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Title Author Year
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
The Poem Grace Interrupted Mikko Harvey 2019
Now Close the Windows Robert Frost 1915
The Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness Thomas Wyatt 1557
Portrait of a Lady T. S. Eliot 1915
To Fanny John Keats 1848
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992

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